Posted on 03/03/2017 9:19:46 AM PST by Oldpuppymax
Many of us remember the “Fake but Accurate” assertion made by Dan Rather in response to the millions of Americans who questioned the CBS claim that George Bush had run away from his duty to serve in Vietnam. In this October Surprise of 2004, it didn’t matter to Rather that the documents he put forward to accuse the president of cowardice were proven to be fraudulent. For according to the CBS talking head, it was simply a fact that George Bush had shirked his responsibility to serve, evidence to the contrary be damned. The claim, Rather argued, was accurate, even though the documentation which “supported” it was fake.
Last week, a claim was posted on facebook which states that:
13,506 Marines applied for White House Detail last week. None applied over the last 8 years, they had to be assigned!....Go figure
According to Snopes, the assertion presented in this story is “unproven.” The “fact-checking” website itself leaves no doubt that it is very skeptical of the claims’ veracity.
But unlike that of Dan Rather, this claim appears quite believable. Few doubt that most Marines would wish to avoid service in the White House of Barack Hussein. And at least as many believe that thousands would apply for duty at the White House of a president whose appearance was 8 years overdue.
Dan Rather was willing to make himself look ridiculous by claiming that the Bush story was true, even if all of the supporting evidence had been proven phony. He lost his job and any modicum of credibility that remained to him after decades of advancing agenda over truth. Incredibly, it was later discovered that CBS employee Mary Mapes was in possession of information which proved that Bush had indeed applied for service in Vietnam but was turned down because of his relative inexperience as a pilot. The entire Rather tale was a ploy designed to put John Kerry in the White House. And employees of CBS News knew it all along.
Fake, but certainly not Accurate.
We’re left with a few simple lessons:
1) Good behavior is easy to believe of good people
2) A United States Marine will gladly work for a patriot, but not for a traitor
3) After Donald Trump had been in the White House for only 48 hours, Dan Rather wrote: “Facts and the truth are not partisan." "They are the bedrock of our democracy. And you are either with them, with us, with our Constitution, our history and the future of our nation, or you are against it. Everyone must answer that question.” Rather, it seems, had found fault with Trump, his advisor, Kellyanne Conway and his press secretary, Sean Spicer.
Consider the chutzpah of a proven liar and hyper-partisan hack as he shamelessly accuses others of having an axe to grind and of being dishonest! The lesson: Dan Rather is still an asshole.
I smiled, but misread the title as “Why Won’t Dan Rather QUICKLY Disappear?”
Sorry it has taken so long to date.
It was designed to slander Vietnam vets. The program was supposedly a series of interviews with combat vets who had committed atrocities in Vietnam. They told of rapes, murders and all imaginable human abuses.
The script was written by Rather. The "veterans" were fake and were paid to lie by CBS. Their comments were written by Rather.
Had there been an active internet in 1988 his sleazy career may have ended then. Many of us wrote letters and made phone calls, but they did no good. I made several, one was to John McCain's office. It was ignored.
Remember, rather is a fake veteran. He was thrown out of boot camp with a general discharge.
He’s a treasonous son of a bitch who deserves no respect. Yet, his media cohorts respect him and still give him awards.
geez!!!
Does this mean we vets have to dispose of our ‘ear’ collections. Mannnn that’s been a 49 year conversation piece at parties. /S
He does fit right in with all the fake news today. He is an expert on fake news.
Why won’t Dan just quietly disappear? Because he has never been able to figure out the frequency.
Why won’t Dan just quietly disappear? Because he has never been able to figure out the frequency.
Ears are good, but they don’t compare to hides from people who were skinned alive as one of Rather’s paid actors said.
Kind of like asking why Herpes doesn’t just disappear.
Incurable, self-important attention whore.
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